Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transparent, but it is not correct. Prominent educators and others do not mean merely individual votes. They represent a powerful and highly indignant block of votes. Even if the repeal bill is guillotined soon, the fight is not another lost cause. Proponents of repeal will talk language that politicians understand-about votes...
...Lady Consents" means that Ann Harding consents to her husband, Herbert Marshal's running off with nasty, flinty Margaret Lindsay, and then consents to take him back. It isn't hard to understand Herbert's return; what requires the grain of salt is his defection in the first place. The dialogue in this picture is genuinely artistic, and so is the way it is said. One's skeptical crust is very likely to be pierced, with a resultant sympathy for the folly, fortitude, and final triumph...
Neither I, nor millions of other World War veterans, either organized or individually, have been able to understand what motive possibly has prompted FORTUNE to continue to publish the advertisements which appeared in your January and February issues under the sponsorship of World Peaceways - unless, of course, it be the profit motive...
...definitely encouraging to read that other universities understand and sympathize with Harvard and her faculty, who find their realm of discussion now limited. Yale would promote stiff opposition to the imposition of such an oath on her intellectual freedom. And so would we here at Pennsylvania. But we feel that we have little to fear. We can make no comparison between the intelligence of a New England legislature and our own, but we would hesitate to believe that Pennsylvania's assembly would act in such a stupid fashion. Daily Pennsylvanian...
...times defeated before he got in, but since he had made the sacrosanct Carlton Club he knew he had practically ar rived. Meantime he had made another conquest, of the beautiful Henrietta who was his mistress for two years. He broke with her at last because she would not understand that the Career came first...